Printing-form-alining apparatus.



B; HOUSE.

PRINTING FORM ALINING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.11, 1914.

1,133,822, I Patented Mar.30,1915;

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H. B. ROUSE.

PRINTING FORM ALINING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.11, 1914.

1,1 33 822, Patented Mar. 80, 1915.

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. lang B Fozw UnrTED STATES PATENT onnion.

HARRY B. HOUSE, OF OIIICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO H. B. HOUSE 85 00., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 30, 1915.

Application filed February 11, 1914. Serial No. 817,975.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HARRY B. Rouse, citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Printing-Form- Alining Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, concise, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to printing and has for its object the provision of improved means for imposing page forms in the printing form of which the page forms are component parts. In practising my invention I preferably employ bars at the sides of the imposing plate, riders upon the bars, and strings upon the riders, the strings serving to mark out rectangular locations defining the location of the page forms. As the invention is preferably practised the riders are provided with clamps to secure them in their adjusted positions upon the bars which carry them. These riders are desirably provided with slots for holding the strings.

These features and other characteristics of my invention will be fully described in connection with the accompanying drawings showing the preferred embodiment of my invention and in which- Figure 1 is a plan view illustrating an imposing plate, a form thereon, and the equipment of my invention in position; Fig. 2 is a view in end elevation taken partially in section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a view of a part of the structure as it appears in Fig. 1, on a larger scale, and with a measuring tool shown in addition; Fig. 4 is a sectional view on line 4 4 of Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a component part of the equipment; and Fig. 6 is a view of a measuring device that may be used in adjusting the equipment.

Like parts are indicated by similar characters of reference throughout the difierent figures.

The imposing plate 1 is supported in any preferred or usual manner, as upon the top of a printers cabinet 2. Bars are secured to the sides and ends of the imposing plate by means of screws 4, the tops of these bars being shown as closely approximating the level of the form that is imposed upon the plate 1. This form is shown as being composed of a number of printing plates 5 mountednpon wooden blocks 6 to make them type high, each plate constituting a page form, though it is to be understood that the page forms may beof any desirable nature and construction. The page forms are assembled as usual within a chase 7 and in order that the chase and the form it contains may be readily moved onand oil' the imposing plate, at least one of the bars 3 is removably mounted to which end the construction illustrated in Fig. 2 may be employed where I have shown down setting slots 8 in the bottom of one of the end bars 3 in which slots the shanks of the screws 4 that are employed to secure this particular bar in place are received with sliding fit. By loosening these particular screws this end bar 3 may be moved vertically upwardly for removing the bar and downwardly for replacing itthe screws 4 belonging to this bar being tightened after the bar has been positioned. For convenience one of the bars 3 upon one of the long sides of the imposing plate may also be thus removably mounted, though it is not desirable ltoo removably mount more than two of such ars.

It will be observed that the screws 4 clamp the bars 3 upon the vertical edges of the plate 1 sothat the threaded holes in the plate 1 that are provided for receiving the stems of the screws 4 are formed in the sides of such plate rather than in the top thereof whereby the chase 7 and the form contained therein do not need to ride over the holes that are provided for the screws. I do not wish to be limited, however, to this particular location for the holes. Riders 9 are mounted upon-the bars 3, there being as many riders upon each of the longer bars as there are page forms 5 in each long row of page .forms in the chase 7 and at least as many such riders upon each of the shorter bars as there are page forms 5 in each short or transverse row of page forms. These riders are preferably provided with clamp ing or holding means whereby the riders. and the bars upon which they are mounted may be secured in the relative positions to which they are adjustably brought by movement of the riders along the bars. The riders are shown as being provided with grooves 10 in their bottom portions for receiving the bars and to have sliding fit and shanks 12 working inthreaded holes that pass from the outside of the riders 9 into communication with the slots or grooves 10 so that the inner ends of the screw stems 12 may have clamping engagement with the bars 3 as illustrated 'most clearly in Fig. 4. The riders are provided with slots or grooves 13 that extend at right angles-tothe slots or ooves 10, there being desirablytwo slots 13 in the top of each rider adjacent its ends. Thus the slots 13 in the riders upon the long side of the imposing plate 1 are transversely disposed with respect to such plate and the form imposed thereon while the slots 13 in the riders upon the ends of the' imposing plate 1 are longitudinally disposed v with respect to such plate and form imposed thereon. The adjacent riders 'uponeach of the longer bars 3 are spaced apart a distance equal to the length of a page form 5 plus the distance between this page form and the next page form in the same longitudinal rowtherewith, or at least this is true of, the

spacing between slots'in these riders. The

adjacent riders upon each of the shorter bars 3 are spacedapart a distance equal to the width of a page form 5 plus the distance between this page form and the next page form in the same transverse row therewith. .The slots'l3 in the riders carried by adja-' cent bars '3 are placed in alinement with slots 13 in riders/carried by opposite bars 3, the alinem'ent of the slots in the riders carried by one pair of parallel bars 3 being at right angles to the alinement of the slots in the riders carried by the remaining pair of parallel bars 3. Strings 14 are passed through alined grooves 13 so as to extend across the plate 1 and the form imposed thereon whereby a number of rectangular spaces are defined with which the location of the page forms 5 are exactly to correspend so that these page forms will have their relative positions very accurately determined.

It is understood that the chase is first located in its proper position which may be maintained by means of printers furniture 15 and quoins 16 interposed between the chase and the bars 3. The positions of the,

page forms 5 within the chase, with respect to each other, and in conformity with the rectangular spaces marked off by the strings 14 are determined in the usual way by means of printers furniture 17 and quoins 18.

The relative positions of the imposing plate 1 and the bars 3 are determined by means of the screws 4 and the threaded holes a that receive their stems and which are preferably provided in the sides of the imposing plate 1. A permanently fixed block or pro- 7 .bars. The markers 19 are provided with slots 13 whereby the positions of these markersmay be determined withrespect each other, with the aid of. strings entering the slots, before the markers are made'fast to thelbarswhich carry thesame. The'slots, '13 inthe rblocks 19at opposite sides'o'f the 1,

plate 1 are inalinement and the alinement of such slots in one pair ,of opposite blocks is at right angles to thefalin'emnt of such slots in the other pair of opposite blocks.

In order to spacethefriders 9 with respect to each other and with respect' to the blocks 19 these riders and blocks are provided with registering formations, preferably cylindrical, which are preferably in the form of holes 20 at the middle portions of the blocks 9 and 19. These registering formations are used in conjunction with a measuring tool in accurately determining the spaces between each marker 19 and therider 9 next adjacent thereto and between adjacent riders. Where holes 20 are employed in the topsofthe elements 9 and 19the1measuring tool illustrated in Figs. 2, land 6 mayjbe'employed, this measuring tool having apin 21 fixed at one end'and a pin 22,.whichis carried upon a rider 23 movable upon a measuring beam 24, the adjusted position of'the pin 22 being sethe spacingbetween the pins 21 and 22 may cured by means of a clamping screw By means of the measuring instrument shown be made to conform first to the spacing that is to exist between the hole 20 in the block 19' upon a bar 3 andthe hole 20 in rtherider 9 next adjacent the blockinorder accurately and rider, it being understood-that the rider 9 9 is shifted untilthe pins 21 and 22may be a received in the holes '20. After the first rider 9 upon its bar 3has thus been adjusted the first rider 9 uponthe opposite bar-is similarly adjusted whereafter the. osition of the pin 22 with respect to the pm 21-of 115' to determine the spacingibetween such block,

' plate; of a plurality with respect to the block 19, whereafter the subsequent riders upon the same bar are similarly adjusted with respect to the preceding riders on such bar. The riders upon an opposite pair of bars being thus adjusted, the riders upon the remaining bars are similarly adjusted, though the spacings between the riders upon one set of bars are obviously different from the spacings existing between the riders upon the other set of bars. It is understood that the riders are of similar formation with the holes 20 equidistant between the slots 13. When the holes 20 in adjacent riders 9 upon the shorter bars 3 are spaced apart, as they should be, the distance equal to the width of a page form and the space between this page form and the adjacent page form in the same transverse row therewith, the strings 14, when locaetd in similarly positioned slots 13 in these riders will be correspondingly spaced apart for the purpose which was hitherto expressed. In a similar manner the strings 14 that are engaged with the slots 13 provided in the riders 9 upon the longer bars 3 are spaced apart the distances prescribed for them.

While I have herein shown and particularly described the preferred embodiment ofmy invention I do not wish to be limited to the precise details of construction shown as changes may readily be made without de- I parting from the spirit of my invention,

but

-Having thus described my invention I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent the following 1. The combination with of string supporting riders at each of the upright sides of the imposing plate, the imposin plate having supporting means for the rid ers along which the riders may move; and means for fixedly securing the riders in position with respect to the imposing plate, said riders being provided with'cylindrical formations whereby they may cooperate with a measuring instrument having corresponding formations in establishing the spacin between the riders, there being also cylindrical formations in permanently fixed relation to the an imposingimposing plate to act as markers in positioning the riders.

2. The combination with an imposing plate; of a plurality of string supporting riders at each of the upright sides of the imposing plate, the imposing plate having supporting means for the riders along which the riders may move; and means for fixedly securing the riders in position with respect to the imposing plate, said riders being provided with measuring formations whereby they may cohperate with a measuring instrument 'having corresponding formations in establishing the spacings between the riders.

3. The combination with an imposing plate; of a plurality of string supporting riders at each of the upright sides of the imposing plate, the imposing plate having supporting means for the riders along which the ridersmay move, the riders and said supporting means having interengaging formations whereby the riders are prevented from turning materially; and means for fixedly securing the riders in position with respect to the imposing plate.

4. The combination with an imposing plate; of a plurality of strin supporting riders at each of the upright si es of the im posing plate, the imposing plate having supporting means for the riders along which the riders may move, the riders and said supporting means having interengaging formations whereby the riders are prevented from turning materially.

5. The combination with an imposing plate; of a plurality of string supporting riders at each of the upright sides of the imposing plate, the imposing plate having supporting means for the riders along which the riders may move; and means for fixedly securing the riders in position with respect to the imposing plate.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this ninth day of February A. D.,

HARRY B. BOUSE. Witnesses:

ETTA L. WHITE, G. L. CRAGG. 

